Comment by joshmarinacci
7 days ago
I think what you were saying is that it depends entirely on the type of writing you’re doing and who your audience is.
7 days ago
I think what you were saying is that it depends entirely on the type of writing you’re doing and who your audience is.
I think those are important considerations, but it depends even more on what you are attempting to express in the sentence in question. There's plenty of active-voice phrasing in the Gettysburg Address and Ecclesiastes that would not be improved by rewriting it in the passive voice.